給食だより

スタミナ丼　牛乳　えび団子スープ

～Lunch Report By ALT～

Happy February!  The first lunch of the month is stamina rice bowl and shrimp ball soup.  The ebidango soup is super good and I love the thin harusame noodles.  They are so light and add an interesting texture from the noodle while still being very juicy.  The flavor is light and salty but each shrimp ball explodes with flavor.  Such a great soup.  The stamina don was also excellent.  Very flavorful and packed with tons of meat as well.  A great meal to kick off the new month!  Thank you very much!

【全国学校給食週間】

はちみつパン　牛乳　メンチカツ

ブロッコリーサラダ　インド煮

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The final day of Kyushoku week brings indoni, menchi katsu, and broccoli salad with honey bread on the side.  I like this menu a lot.  The salad is delicious and the juicy broccoli is filled with creamy dressing and joined by yummy and sweet bursts of flavor from the corn.  The indoni is quite good and has lots of delicious flavors from Indian style foods and even has a little more spice than usual.  I am surprised by the satsumaage and quail eggs, but they are delicious as well.  I liked how there were many potatoes in it.  Today’s menchi kantsu is also excellent and super crunchy on the outside while still being juicy and meaty on the inside.  Although the katsu is salty and fried, and the honey bread is sweet, I still made a sandwich with them and it was very good.  Great lunch today!

【全国学校給食週間】

【とちぎ地産地消元気アップ・牛肉献立】

ごはん　牛乳　ハッシュドビーフ

じゃこサラダ　ぽんかん

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Day 4 of school lunch week brings fancy hashed beef on the menu!  The shako salad was pretty good and I enjoyed the aburaage strips and dressing especially.  The hashed beef was a delicious stew with great flavors from the meat.  The stew itself got tons of flavor from the tomato base and many vegetables inside of it as well.  It was hot and delicious and perfect with rice.  Very hearty and filling and supports my theory that all school stews are delicious.  Finally we also got a ‘ponkan’ which in English is a ‘ponkan orange’ or tangerine.  Basically a slightly different mikan.  They were served very cold and were delicious and sweet after the stew.  Great lunch and certainly a top 10 for sure!  School lunch week is unbeatable! Gochisousamadeshita!

【全国学校給食週間】

米粉パン　とちおとめジャム　牛乳

いも入り焼きそば　大根とツナのサラダ

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Day three of school lunch week!  Today is yakisoba with potatoes, salad with tuna, and bread with jam.  Lots of ‘with’s’ today!  The salad was excellent as always with its unique mix of tangy dressing and tuna flavor.  Of course I used some of the bread to soak up the dressing.  The yakisoba was good and the potatoes inside it gave it a new texture compared to the noodles and normal ingredients.  It was good.  A member in the teacher’s room mentioned that potatoes in yakisoba is ‘soul food’ in Tochigi.  I think that is very interesting, and delicious too. The VP mentioned that potatoes in yakisoba is more a tradition in southern Tochigi.  I will have to visit those places and try it out!  Today we got a special tochiotome jam, but the teachers in the teachers room got tangerine jam instead!  It was will very delicious and perfect with the rice bread.  A wonderful lunch today!

【全国学校給食週間】

【地産地消：野口菜】

ごはん　牛乳　手作りとんカツ（ごまソース）

ボイルキャベツ　にこにこ汁

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Today is a another special menu day!  Handmade tonkatsu with soup and boiled cabbage.  The boiled cabbage was essentially a garnish for the katsu so I ate it quickly.  It was fairly sweet and crunchy.  The nikoniko soup was good, but the nameko gives it a slightly slimy texture.  The main event, tonkatsu.  Today’s katsu came with a nice big packet of special sesame sauce.  The katsu was very big and almost as large as you would get at a restaurant.  This is a real treat and it was still very crunchy and tender at the same time.  The sauce was basically the same as high quality tonkatsu sauce.  I didn’t taste the sesame flavor strongly, but there was certainly ground goma in the sauce.  It was fantastic.  What a treat today.  Another top 10 kyushoku with the huge delicious katsu. Gochisousamadeshita.

【全国学校給食週間】

【とちぎ地産地消元気アップ・水産物献立】

ごはん　牛乳　ヤシオマスのたまりじょうゆ焼き

いそ香り和え　キムチ入りとん汁　とちおとめアイス

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This is the first day of National School Lunch week here in Japan  I don’t know what that is but I imagine that all schools in Japan are eating the same basic school lunches? Like everyone gets the same basic menu but each prefecture adds a little special flare to it?  Today is also The Tochigi Genki up menu AND the aquatic menu as well.  It has three separate special names today!  I hope that its really good!  The Isokaoriae salad was delicious.  It means beach scent salad basically and I did get some sea side smells from the seaweed and sesame flavors when I was eating it.  It was great.  Next up was pork soup with kimchi.  It has a ton of flavor thanks to the kimchi and really fills you up.  I think this is where most of the genki up part of the menu comes from.  The soup went so well with the rice that I almost ate all of it, but I saved some for the sea trout.  The trout was meaty and delicious with a very light flavor which let the great flavor of the fish take center stage.  It was very delicious.  Finally the Tochiotome Strawberry icecream was tremendous.  It was mostly strawberry sherbert with a few perfectly balanced layers of ice cream which took it from a delicious dessert to something of legend.  No doubt the most delicious ice cream I have ever eaten with Kyushoku.  Today’s menu is the best we have eaten so far and I could imagine it remaining in the top 3 for a long time.  Great lunch today! Gochisousamadeshita!

ミルクパン　みかんジャム　牛乳

オムレツ　ポパイソテー　マカロニのクリーム煮

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Today is a wonderful day!  Macaroni stew!  I seriously love this stuff.  The ‘Popeye’ sautee was amazing.  Very delicious and the flavor of the ham with the spinach was buttery and nice.  I am surprised that Popeye is actually known in Japan since it is such an old cartoon.  Today’s omelet was good as well!  No cheese today, but it was filled with a nice tomato sauce which was perfect with the egg.  Of course I use my bread to clean the plate of the salad and spilled sauce from the omelet.  Today’s macaroni stew was amazing as always.  It has a very gentle flavor which allows the vegetables natural flavor to be easily tasted, especially the onions.  I ate it very quickly!  Finally the tangerine jelly and bread.  I saved half of my bread for the jelly and it was sweet and refreshing.  Enjoyed with milk it is a wonderful combination.  Fantastic lunch today and a top 10 for sure!  Gochisousama Deshita!

ごはん　牛乳　春巻

ハムとニラの和え物　ワンタンスープ

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Today is a Chinese menu.  The ham and nira salad was crunchy and filled with ham too.  The flavor from the nira and dressing gave it a zingy oniony flavor that was very delicious and refreshing.  I could eat a ton of it!  The wonton soup was very good too.  Nice and hot.  But I got way more Naruto slices than wontons in my bowl which was interesting.  Finally, I saved my favorite for last, the spring roll!  Today’s spring rolls were perfect.  Super crunchy, flavorful, and not too oily either which was very nice.  The taste of the filling and the wrapper is simply delicious and has a nice salty and savory flavor which makes me want to eat more and more.  Wonderful meal today!

ごはん　牛乳　さばのみそ煮

れんこんきんぴら　むらくも汁

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Today is a Japanese menu!  The Renkon kinpira is great.  Renkon is called lotus root in English and many people in America don’t eat it, but I think it is great.  The kinpira has a nice earthy and savory flavor with hints of sweetness here and there that make it a delight.  The Murakumo soup was nice.  In English, murakumo are “Gathering Clouds” and I understand the meaning since the eggs look a little like clouds in the soup.  The saba misoni was excellent. Maybe today’s best menu item with its nice flavorful meaty texture and the sweet delicious miso sauce on top.  Saba is mackerel in English.  It’s delicious and cooked perfectly I feel.  Not to mention a bit bigger than usual too which is a surprise.  Another excellent school lunch today!

チキンカレーライス　牛乳

海そうサラダ　ヨーグルト

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Today is chicken curry with rice, seagrass salad, and some yogurt.  A classic school lunch menu.  I like the seagrass salad very much and enjoy the sweetness from the corn and cabbage mixed with the slightly sour and tangy dressing.  The chicken curry was excellent and the spice level was quite nice.  It tasted spicier than usual and I enjoyed it quite a bit.  In winter I think that spicy curry is delicious.  Today’s yogurt was Yakult flavored and it has an interesting sweet and sourness which is unique.  Nice lunch today!  Also, I was unable to eat lunch yesterday but am bummed that I missed out on the oroshi hamburg and gobo salad.  I love gobo!